Proponents

We like to think that each development we stumble upon is a unique circumstance, a possibility to affect something, conjure up some good in this world. But what if this “unique” circumstance was not so unique? This project begins with a seemingly deluded premise, but one that is taken as consensus from disciplines outside of architecture: that our underlying economic system predicates the shape and form of our city, and it has a hyper-political agenda that leaves its occupants disenfranchised.

The architecture of this project then is seemingly just as deluded – it is the design of a new system – one that exists for and meets the ends of those who exist within it; it accounts for the idiosyncrasy of these communities and the natural world that surrounds them. Forensically, it tracks immaterial relationships between seemingly disparate elements of the built environment, from the streetscape to the building, to the suburb to that of the city. It simulates the omnipresence of the current system and its manifestation in material and spatial form. In doing so, it seeks to extend our disciplinary realm of inquiry and influence, not merely as individuals capable only of conjuring objects but a collective discipline made up of individual proponents for change.